Who Likes Ships? We Have Aircraft and Trains.
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this is more like McHale's Navy
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it does matter what side, these guys had " guts "
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The SS United States is towed down the Delaware River between Pennsylvania and New Jersey, from Philadelphia, Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2025.
Matt Rourke / AP
Detective D
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Not everything can be saved, but this is a sad one.
Its only a part of history, lets get rid of it. I’m just sick. Sad they even gotta do what theyre gonna do. Some billionaire even tried to save it and bring it to his own pier but apparently that didn’t happen. From what I hear its gonna go to Alabama to get cleaned for 8 to 12 months
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I boarded it in NYC 1960 while docked. It was a big deal.
No TSA, metal detectors, Gold star ID, etc., we just walked on.
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The dock fees doomed it. Whatever money they were able to raise had to pay for a parking spot. Damn shame. Better than scrapping I guess.
https://news.usni.org/2025/02/19/ss...hing-bound-for-alabama-before-planned-sinking
I used to see it sitting in Norfolk, Virginia a long time ago. It was a sad sight back then too.
I believe VINIK NO 6 is the tugboat moving the SS UNITED STATES down the east coast.
Powered by two, sixteen cylinder, EMD diesel engines. Turning two, cast steel, fixed pitch, propellers. She is a twin screw tug, rated at 5,700 horsepower.
Her electrical service is provided by two, 75kW generator sets. The tug's capacities are 174,618 gallons of fuel, 18,492 gallons of potable water, and 30,379 gallons of ballast.
Tugboat Information
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https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ai.../mmsi:368028510/imo:7044328/vessel:VINIK_NO_6
Powered by two, sixteen cylinder, EMD diesel engines. Turning two, cast steel, fixed pitch, propellers. She is a twin screw tug, rated at 5,700 horsepower.
Her electrical service is provided by two, 75kW generator sets. The tug's capacities are 174,618 gallons of fuel, 18,492 gallons of potable water, and 30,379 gallons of ballast.
Tugboat Information
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Tracking:
https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ai.../mmsi:368028510/imo:7044328/vessel:VINIK_NO_6
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The entrance wall for the Mariners’ Museum features a 34-ton propeller from the SS United States, one of America’s fastest and most famous luxury vessels built by Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company in the late 1940s. This photo was originally published in 2008. (Joe Fudge/Daily Press)
https://www.ssusc.org/s/111324-The-Virginia-Pilot-So-Long-to-the-SS-United-States.pdf
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That must be a misprint. 7,044,328 gallons of fuel would weigh more than that tugs' gross weight of 580 tons. In comparison, a railway locomotive usually carries around 3,500 gallons.
Where did you see 7,044,328?
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I have no idea.
>I< must have made a misprint! But the 174,618 gallons would weigh 1,454,372 pounds, still over the gross weight of the entire tug.
